Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Mauritania

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2143-2149

  Nabeth, Pierre ^a   Cheikh, Dah Ould ^b   Lo, Baidy ^c   Faye, Ousmane ^a   Vall, Idoumou Ould Mohamed ^b   Niang, Mbayame ^a   Wague, Bocar ^b   Diop, Djibril ^c   Diallo, Mawlouth ^a   Diallo, Boubacar ^d   Diop, Ousmane Madiagne ^a   Simon, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b Min de la S et des Aff Sociales   (Mauritania)

^c Centre National d'Hygiene   (Mauritania)

^d Ctr Natl d'Elev et de Rech Vet   (Mauritania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAURITANIA; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK; SEROLOGY; TICK; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

EID: 9744248263     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1012.040535     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. World Health Organization. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. Fact sheet no. 208. Geneva: The Organization; 1998.
2. Swanepoel R, Shepherd AJ, Leman PA, Shepherd SP, McGillivray GM, Erasmus MJ, et al. Epidemiologic and clinical features of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in southern Africa. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1987;36:120-32.
3. Burney MI, Ghafoor A, Saleen M, Webb PA, Casals J. Nosocomial outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Crimean hemorrhagic fever-Congo virus in Pakistan, January 1976. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1980;29:941-7.
4. Hoogstraal H. The epidemiology of tick-borne Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever in Asia Europe and Africa. J Med Entomol. 1979;15:307-417.
5. Saluzzo JF, Camicas JL, Chartier C, Martinez D, Digoutte JP. Le virus de la fièvre hémorragique de Crimée-Congo (CCHF) en Mauritanie. Cahiers de l'ORSTOM série entomologie médicale et parasitologie. 1986;XXIV(2):129-37.
6. Camicas JL, Cornet JP, Gonzalez JP, Wilson ML, Adam F, Zeller HG La fièvre hémorragique de Crimée-Congo au Senegal. Dernieres donnees sur l'ecologie du virus CCHF. Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 1994;87:11-6.
7. Lee VM, Kemp GE. Congo virus: experimental infection of Hyalomma rufipes and transmission to a calf. Bull Entomol Soc Nigeria. 1970;2:133-5.
8. Gonzalez JP, Camicas JL, Cornet JP, Faye O, Wilson ML. Sexual and transovarian transmission of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in Hyalomma truncatum ticks. Res Virol. 1992;143:23-8.
9. Gonzalez JP, Camicas JL, Cornet JP, Wilson ML. Biological and clinical responses of West African sheep to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus experimental infection. Res Virol. 1998;149:445-55.
10. Isaacson M. Viral hemorrhagic fever hazards for travelers in Africa. Clin Infect Dis. 2001;33:1707-12.
11. Altaf A, Luby S, Ahmed AJ, Zaidi N, Khan AJ, Mirza S, et al. Outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Quetta, Pakistan: contact tracing and risk assessment. Trop Med Int Health. 1998;3:878-82.
12. Papa A, Bino S, Llagami A, Brahimaj B, Papadimitriou E, Pavlidou V, et al. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Albania, 2001. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2002;21:603-6.
13. Simpson DIH, Knight EM, Curtois GH, Williams MC, Weinbren MP, Kibukamusoke JW. Congo virus: a hitherto undescribed virus occurring in Africa. I. Human isolations-clinical notes. East Afr Med J. 1967;44:86-92.
14. Saluzzo JF, Aubry P, Aubert H, Digoutte JP. La maladie a virus CHF-Congo en Afrique. A propos d'un cas a manifestations hémorragiques en Mauritanie. Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1985;78:164-9.
15. Niklasson B, Peters CJ, Grandiem M, Wood O. Detection of human immunoglobulin G and M antibodies to Rift Valley fever by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. J Clin Microbiol. 1984;19:225-9.
16. Drosten C, Gottig S, Schilling S, Asper M, Panning M, Schmitz H, et al. Rapid detection and quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 2002;40:2323-30.
17. Saluzzo JF, Digoutte JP, Camicas JL, Chauvancy G. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and Rift Valley fever in south-eastern Mauritania. Lancet. 1985;1(8420):116.
18. Gonzalez JP, LeGuenno B, Guillaud M, Wilson ML. A fatal case of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Mauritania: virological and serological evidence suggesting epidemic transmission. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1990;84:573-6.
19. Wilson ML, Gonzalez JP, Cornet JP, Camicas JL. Transmission of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus from experimentally infected sheep to Hyalomma truncation ticks. Res Virol. 1991;142:395-404.
20. Suleiman MN, Muscat-Baron JM, Harries JR, Satti AG, Platt GS, Bowen ET, et al. Congo/Crimean haemorrhagic fever in Dubai. An outbreak at the Rashid Hospital. Lancet. 1980;2(8201):939-41.
21. Van Eeden PJ, Joubert JR, van de Wal BW, King JB, de Kock A, Groenewald JH. A nosocomial outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever at Tygerberg Hospital. Part I. Clinical features. S Afr Med J. 1985;68:711-7.
22. Fisher-Hoch SP, Khan JA, Rehman S, Mirza S, Khurshid M, McCormick JB. Crimean Congo-haemorrhagic fever treated with oral ribavirin. Lancet. 1995;346(8973):472-5.
23. Al-Tikriti SK, Al-Ani F, Jurji FJ, Tantawi H, Al-Moslih M, Al-Janabi N, et al. Congo/Crimean haemorrhagic fever in Iraq. Bull World Health Organ. 1981;59:85-90.
24. Simpson DI. Viral hemorrhagic fevers in man. Bull World Health Organ. 1979;57:19-32.
25. Gonzalez JP, Wilson ML, Cornet JP, Camicas JL. Host-passage-induced phenotypic changes in Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus. Res Virol. 1995;146:131-40.
26. Burt FJ, Leman PA, Abbott JC, Swanepoel R. Serodiagnosis of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. Epidemiol Infect. 1994;113:551-62.
27. Shepherd AJ, Swanepoel R, Leman PA. Antibody response in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11(Suppl 4):S801-6.